October 17, 2013|Comments Off on Was the Walmart food stamp shopping spree a sign of things to come?

Last weekend, there was a glitch in the Electronic Benefits Transfer system cards, debit-style cards issued under Louisiana’s food stamps system. The food stamp cards show the amount of money… Read more »

October 16, 2013|Comments Off on Nobel winner Robert Shiller is a pro-tax, anti-capitalist Keynesian

On Monday, economists Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago and Robert Shiller of Yale University were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (specifically the 2013 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in… Read more »

October 15, 2013|Comments Off on Venezuela price inflation rate tops nearly 50% since September

A socialist paradise? Although Hollywood elites and left-wing intellectuals enjoy depicting Venezuela as such a place, the reality of the situation is that the country is experiencing complete misery because… Read more »

October 9, 2013|Comments Off on Republicans release video showing Democrats were against debt ceiling increase

During the President George W. Bush administration, Republican Congressmen and Senators were in favor of raising the debt ceiling so the federal government could borrow and spend astronomical amounts of… Read more »

October 8, 2013|Comments Off on Is Obamacare going to hinder Americans’ healthcare quality?

As the United States government shutdown has taken front stage on the media landscape, the glitches over the Obamacare website and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act haven’t garnered… Read more »

October 7, 2013|Comments Off on Congress overwhelmingly votes to give furloughed workers back pay

Last week, media outlets such as CNN, CBS News and MSNBC continued to report how furloughed federal government workers would be hurt by the government shutdown. Essentially, the reports consisted… Read more »